Wheel Painting?

[dsm77]

My 99 eclipse gs is white with the stock 16' OZ racing F-1 Wheels...I want to paint them gloss black because i cannot afford rims rite now. How do you think that will turn out? Shitty? Will it look nice?

 

[GiRlsGoFaStEr]

well, it depends on what you paint them with. I think it would look nice, but it only cost 50 dollars a rim to powdercoat if you want to look in that direction.

 

[SpeedAddict62]

My friend and I recently painted my stock 90 GSX wheels, as I was low on money and wanted something different (and I'm getting new rims anyways, might as well experiment). For around $15 or so we bought some rustoleum gloss black and primer. We took all the wheels off and cleaned them as well as possible, then put a number of coats of primer, then a few coats of gloss. It honestly turned out much better than I thought, and so far has held up pretty well. Unfortunately I don't have any good pics, but I can get some if you'd like.

 

[jongreene]

The prep work is honestly more important to how itll turn out than the paint.

Buy some gloss black wheel paint or just plain jane black spray paint, and prep it good.

 

[TuRBoTaLooN]

best advise:

CLEAN CLEAN and CLEAN some more. Wash, degrease, wipe clean, and tape off. Once you get to that point just spray and walk away!